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Sisters in resistance : how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis / by Mazzeo, Tilar J.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 1944, the war had reached its climax in continental Europe. News of secret diaries kept by Italy's former Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano, had permeated public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women-a Fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite-risked their lives to ensure the diaries would reach the Allied forces, who would use the papers as key evidence against the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials. Just a year earlier, Edda Mussolini, Benito Mussolini's daughter, had given Hitler and her father an ultimatum: release her husband, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband's journals to the press. Knowing the diaries will expose Nazi lies and create a foundation for a criminal war crimes prosecution, Hitler and Mussolini vow to do everything in their power to see the diaries destroyed-even if it means liquidating Mussolini's daughter. To do this, they ordered Hilde Beetz, a German spy, to seduce Ciano in prison in order to learn the diaries' location. As the seducer becomes the seduced, however, Hilde shifts her loyalties and becomes a double agent, joining forces with Edda to save Ciano from execution. When this fails, Edda flees to Switzerland with Hilde's daring assistance to keep Ciano's final wish: to see the diaries published for use by the Allies. When the head of United States' intelligence, Alan Dulles, learns of Edda's escape, he sends in socialite Frances De Chollet, an "accidental" spy, assigned by chance to a mission that would change her life. Her task is to find Edda, gain her trust, and, crucially, hand the diaries over to the Americans. Against all expectations, what develops is a rich and humanizing friendship between the two women. One step ahead of the Gestapo agents who are hunting Edda, together they succeed in preserving one of the most important historic documents of the Second World War. Drawing from in-depth research and first-person interviews with people who witnessed parts of this true story, Mazzeo gives readers a riveting look into this little-known moment in cultural history and shows how, without Edda, Hilde, and Frances's involvement, certain convictions would never have been possible at Nuremberg. Sisters in Resistance is a powerful look at women's intelligence work during WWII, a moving story of unlikely wartime friendships, and an inspirational investigation into three people who, navigated the place where truth, loyalty, justice, and betrayal collide"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Ciano, Edda Mussolini, Contessa.; Ciano, Galeazzo, conte, 1903-1944; Ciano, Galeazzo, conte, 1903-1944.; Purwin, Hilde, 1919-2010.; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel. Reichssicherheitshauptamt. Amt VI.; Espionage, German; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy / by Macintyre, Ben,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn't know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named "Sonya." Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI-and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century-between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy-and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times. With unparalleled access to Sonya's diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000.; Soviet Union. Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie.; Cold War.; Espionage, Soviet; Nuclear weapons; Spies; Spies; Spies; Women spies;
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La ruse de Mme Renard : un conte du Bangladesh / by Randell, Beverley,1931-; Lau, Yen.;
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Subjects: Renards; Tigre; Contes; Foxes; Tiger; Tales;
© c2003., Groupe Beauchemin,
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Chevrotain et les crocodiles : un conte de Malaisie / by Randell, Beverley,1931-; Reynolds, Pat.;
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Subjects: Ruminants; Crocodiles; Contes; Chevrotains; Ruminants; Crocodiles; Tales;
© c2003., Groupe Beauchemin,
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Cendrillon / by Charlesworth, Liza.; Smith, Ian(Ian Alan); Rioux, Hélène,1949-;
LSC
Subjects: Contes de fées; Fairy tales;
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Alexis, chevalier des nuits : un conte à lire avant d'aller au lit / by Gratton, Andrée-Anne,1956-; Constantin, Pascale.;
Alexis refuse de dormir dans son lit. Il prend son serpent-long-long, sa doudou et il s'installe sur la moquette qui se métamorphose en langue du mauvais génie. Le lendemain, dans la baignoire, un gros requin le poursuit. Dans le garde-manger, l'ogre le terrorise. Sur le balcon, il repousse les monstres, mais il est tout mouillé, car il pleut. Depuis il dort dans son lit, entouré que de monstres très gentils. -- Un récit où la créativité du texte et celle de l'illustration s'harmonisent à merveille. [SDM]LSC
Subjects: Histoires rimées.; Stories in rhyme.; Sommeil; Cauchemars; Monstres; Lits; Sleep; Nightmares; Monsters; Beds;
© c2009., Les 400 coups,
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La belle au bois dormant / by Man-Kong, Mary.; Disney Storybook Artists.;
LSC
Subjects: Princesses; Contes de fées.; Princesses; Fairy tales.;
© c2015., Presses Aventure,
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À la recherche d'un trésor / by Meyer, Pat.; Lewis, Naomi C.;
LSC
Subjects: Avarice; Montagnes; Contes.; Avarice; Mountains; Tales.;
© c2004., Groupe Beauchemin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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La princesse au petit pois / by Andersen, H. C.(Hans Christian),1805-1875.; Hoit, Richard,1970-; Drolet, Louise.;
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Subjects: Princesses; Contes de fées; Princesses; Fairy tales;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Le soleil et la mer / by Nelley, Elsie.; Baldwin, Gregory.; Drolet, Louise.;
LSC
Subjects: Soleil; Mer; Contes; Ocean; Tales;
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